Wednesday, August 31, 2011

Amarin Heavenly Thai @ Mid-Valley Megamall

I had the pleasure of having a meal at Amarin Heavenly Thai courtesy of my wife recently. It was a fixed menu and “”sponsored” by her recently approved credit card.

The ambiance of the place has changed considerably from the last time I was there and the restaurant has been heavily renovated.

Anyway, first item to arrive was our Chinese Tea . Can’t really comment on the tea itself, quite “boringly” normal but that’s expected 95% of the time anyway.

Very quickly after that, we were served our starters, which were 6 very well deep fried spring rolls. They were served with sweet Thai chilli sauce which was not too light nor too strong. The spring rolls were close to “heavenly” I guess as it was lightly crisp, not oily and the content was warm to the palette.

It was quickly followed by the Green Chicken Curry which initially looked quite creamily harmless but proved to be rather spicy after just 2 mouthfuls. The portion was tiny but well proportioned with chicken and eggplant (brinjals).

Individual, i.e. 2 portions of, Pineapple Fried Rice were then served. I must comment that these were probably the best pineapple fried rice that I have had. It may not be the way it is suppose to be in reality but the sweetness of the pineapple fried rice wasn’t sugary sweet but fruit sweet. I am not sure if the sweetness is from the pineapple, it may be from other sources. It was not overwhelm with cashews nor prawns and mix was good. One tiny complain I have with this dish was that the prawns were not what I would call very fresh. They were ok, but I had expected better.

Our desserts were Tab Tim Krob, which were unfortunately not presented well nor was it made that well. The other dishes were well presented but the desert somehow looked like a rush job. We were served individual portions and it seemed that mine was twice as sweet and hence we suspect that the kitchen made a mistake with it. Otherwise, it would have been good.

Overall, I wouldn’t mind returning to this restaurant as the food is generally good although on the pricey side. As mentioned, our meal was sponsored, so here’s the bill .